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TAX REFUND FRAUD IS A BIG FRUSTRATION FOR VICTIMSFriday, 11 April 2014 07:57 Published in National News
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Laura Hankins knew something was wrong when she filed her daughter's tax return and it was rejected hours later: An identity thief already had sent in a return using the 19-year-old's personal information.
"This is the first time in her life she has ever filed income taxes, after earning all of $1,800 stocking products on grocery store shelves," Hankins said. "I did her taxes for her online, but immediately she got the rejection."
Thieves have claimed billions of dollars in bogus tax refunds from the IRS by swiping the Social Security numbers and identities of schoolchildren in Florida, prisoners in Pennsylvania, teachers in Washington state and soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hackers and employees with access to thousands of names stored in company databases have tapped into reams of personal information, allowing them to submit hundreds of fraudulent returns by computer and receive refunds within days. Five people in Cincinnati were sentenced to prison late last year for using the names of employees at nursing homes and hospitals to file tax returns.
It all adds up to a lot of frustration for legitimate taxpayers who face more paperwork and months of waiting for their tax refunds.
Hankins was told her daughter Claire, a college student from West Milwaukee, Wis., would get her refund in about six months. But Hankins first had to spend about 20 hours filling out forms, gathering information and photocopying documents because she couldn't file electronically after the tax identity theft was discovered in February.
"Some kids get to go to Florida for spring break, but she got to go to the West Milwaukee police station to file a theft report," said Hankins, who added that her daughter is worried about what will happen next now that her personal information is out there.
The IRS paid out nearly $4 billion to people using stolen identities in 2012, according to a government report. Since identity theft fraud exploded over the past three years, the agency has made stopping it a priority, but thieves are becoming more aggressive and still finding ways to get around increased scrutiny.
"It's like that game of Whac-A-Mole. When you're attacking one scheme, they come up with another," said Wifredo Ferrer, the U.S. attorney in South Florida, a hot spot for the schemes.
Fraudulent filers have evaded detection lately by getting refunds loaded onto prepaid debit cards instead of receiving them by check. Others have robbed postal workers to get refunds and even recruited mail carriers to take part, Ferrer said.
A former records clerk in Alabama's prisons department was charged in January with selling inmates' personal information to claim over $1 million in refunds. Three others were sentenced to prison for taking part, including a mail carrier who stole the refunds from the mail.
"They're getting very creative by using people in the inside," Ferrer said. "They're creative and brazen. They're using the IRS like their own ATM."
The IRS said Thursday that it has started more than 200 investigations into identity theft and refund fraud schemes this filing season and that enforcement efforts are taking place nationwide. It said investigators are especially focused on the misuse of specialized identification numbers assigned to firms that electronically file tax returns.
But the ease of the schemes means no one is immune. The best steps to reduce the chance of refund fraud are to protect Social Security numbers and other personal information.
The practice has spread to the most unlikely of places. Even employees and volunteers within the Archdiocese of Seattle became victims last month in a case that's still being investigated.
Because the goal of the IRS is to get refunds out quickly, it often sends them out before verifying wages and other income from employers and financial institutions. Victims don't know they've been targeted until they file their taxes.
Dallas radio host Ed Wallace said he found out just over a year ago that someone filed a return using his name. What surprised him was that it got through even though his name was misspelled, his address had been changed and his wife's name wasn't on the form.
"I can't believe there wasn't a field in the IRS computers to alert them," Wallace said. "They must have so many they can't keep up."
He spent about $2,700 on attorney fees to straighten out the mess.
Among the biggest frustrations is the amount of time it takes victims to resolve the issue with the IRS and get their refunds.
The average wait for identity theft victims to clear their cases had been about 10 months but is now down to three months, according to the IRS.
Agency Commissioner John Koskinen said the IRS has more than doubled the employees dedicated to working on identity theft and improved its screening to catch suspicious returns.
The IRS stopped more than $12 billion in fraudulent refunds from going to identity thieves in 2012, compared with $8 billion the year before, according to an inspector general's report released in November.
Associated Press writer Lisa Cornwell in Cincinnati contributed to this report.
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SEBELIUS, A LIGHTNING ROD FOR CRITICS, RESIGNSFriday, 11 April 2014 07:55 Published in National News
WASHINGTON (AP) — For five years, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been a lightning rod for critics of President Barack Obama's health care law. But with sign-ups exceeding expectations and a new face soon to be in charge at HHS, the White House is eager to see if the poisonous atmosphere might give way to more pragmatic efforts aimed at fixing problems with the nation's newest social program.
Obama will announce Sebelius' resignation Friday and nominate his budget director, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, as her replacement. The moves come just over a week after sign-ups closed for the first year of insurance coverage under the so-called Obamacare law.
The opening weeks of the enrollment period were marred by website woes, straining ties between Sebelius and officials in the West Wing. Though the administration rebounded strongly and exceeded expectations by enrolling 7.1 million people by the March 31 deadline, the comeback wasn't enough to tamp down Republican criticism of Sebelius or boost the public's perception of the federal health care overhaul.
Enrollment has since risen to 7.5 million as people were given extra time to complete applications.
Even with the robust enrollment, huge implementation challenges remain. The administration has to improve customer service for millions of Americans trying to navigate the new system. And there's a concern that premiums may rise for 2015, since many younger, healthier people appear to have sat out open enrollment season.
On the political front, congressional Republicans remain implacably opposed to the Affordable Care Act, even as several GOP governors have accepted the law's expansion of safety-net coverage under Medicaid. GOP opposition means Republicans can be expected to continue to deny additional funds for implementation.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell., R-Ky., welcomed Sebelius' resignation but appeared to indicate an openness to a dialogue with Burwell even as he declared that "Obamacare has to go."
"I hope this is the start of a candid conversation about Obamacare's shortcomings and the need to protect Medicare," McConnell said.
In nominating Burwell, Obama is signaling that he wants to avoid a contentious election-year fight to fill the HHS post. Burwell was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for her budget position and is well-liked by many Republican lawmakers.
A White House official confirmed Sebelius' resignation and Burwell's nomination but requested anonymity because the official wasn't authorized to do so by name ahead of the official announcement.
Obama remained publicly supportive of Sebelius throughout the rough rollout, deflecting Republican calls for her resignation. But she was not by his side last week when he heralded the sign-up surge during an event in the White House Rose Garden.
The official said the 65-year-old Sebelius approached Obama last month about stepping down, telling him that the sign-up deadline was a good opportunity for a transition and suggesting he would be better served by someone who was less of a political target.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Pat Roberts, a Republican from Sebelius' home state of Kansas, called the resignation "a prudent decision" given what she called the total failure of Obamacare implementation.
Sebelius dropped no hints about her resignation Thursday when she testified at a budget hearing. Instead, she received congratulations from Democratic senators on the sign-up surge.
A popular former governor of Kansas, Sebelius has been one of Obama's longest-serving Cabinet officials and his only HHS secretary. She was instrumental in shepherding the health care law through Congress in 2010 and implementing its initial components, including a popular provision that allows young people to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26.
But Sebelius' relationship with the White House frayed during the fall rollout of the insurance exchanges that are at the center of the sweeping overhaul. The president and his top advisers appeared caught off guard by the extent of the website problems, with warnings from those working on the technology never making it to the West Wing.
With technical problems crippling online sign-ups after the Oct. 1 launch, the White House sent management expert and longtime Obama adviser Jeffrey Zients to oversee a rescue operation that turned things around by the end of November. After taking the helm of the project, Zients said management issues were partly to blame but did not point the finger at any individuals.
Sebelius took personal responsibility for the chaotic launch of the website and asked the HHS inspector general to conduct an investigation. That report is not expected for months.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a staunch supporter of the health care law, praised Sebelius as a "forceful, effective and essential" secretary.
"Secretary Sebelius was a leader in the long effort to make history for our country with passage of the Affordable Care Act," the California Democrat said in a statement.
In nominating the 48-year-old Burwell, Obama is tapping a Washington veteran with a low profile and the respect of some Republicans on Capitol Hill. Though she only joined the Obama administration last year, Burwell held several White House and Treasury posts during President Bill Clinton's administration.
Between her stints in the executive branch, Burwell served as president of Wal-Mart's charitable arm and led the global development program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Associated Press writers Erica Werner in Washington and John Hanna in Topeka, Kan., contributed to this report.
10 KILLED AS BUS, TRUCK CARRYING STUDENTS COLLIDEFriday, 11 April 2014 07:54 Published in National News
ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — The long bus ride north from Los Angeles for a group of high school students who planned to visit Humboldt State University had been fun: The hours whizzed by as they watched movies, chatted up new friends, and jammed to hip-hop on the radio.
Steven Clavijo, 18, a senior at West Ranch High in Santa Clarita, was looking forward to his visit to Humboldt, where he planned to enroll. Just as Clavijo was trying to catch a nap Thursday afternoon, he said he felt the big vehicle begin to shake from left to right and then he heard a loud boom.
"We knew we were in major trouble," he said.
A FedEx tractor-trailer had crossed a grassy freeway median and slammed into the bus. Ten people were killed in the fiery crash, including both drivers, authorities said.
Many of the more than 40 students on board escaped through a window that someone had kicked open, Clavijo said, running for their lives to the other side of Interstate 5 before hearing an explosion and seeing the bus burst into flame.
As he jumped out of the window, Clavijo said, he dropped his glasses and scraped his knee.
Two more explosions soon followed, he said, and he and other survivors looked on knowing others were still trapped in an inferno.
Massive flames could be seen devouring both vehicles just after the crash, and clouds of smoke billowed into the sky until firefighters doused the fire, leaving behind scorched black hulks of metal. Bodies were draped in blankets inside the burned-out bus.
In addition to the drivers, three adult chaperones and five teenage students were killed in the crash, according to the California Highway Patrol. Their identities were not immediately released. The bus carried between 44 and 48 students, four chaperones and the driver, the patrol said.
The crash happened a little after 5:30 p.m. on the interstate near Orland, a small city about 100 miles north of Sacramento.
The bus was one of two that the admissions office at Humboldt State University had chartered to bring prospective students from Southern California to tour the Arcata campus, Humboldt's Vice President of Administrative Affairs Joyce Lopes said.
The bus was owned by Silverado Stages, a tour bus company based in San Luis Obisbo. The company said in a statement on its website Thursday night that it was assisting authorities in gathering information.
"Our top priority is making sure that the injured are being cared for," the company said.
Humboldt State President Rollin Richmond issued a statement on the school's website. "Our hearts go out to those who have been affected, and we are here to support them, and their families, in any way possible," Richmond said.
The students came from a number of Southern California high schools and Humboldt spokesman Simon Chabel said the college was working to confirm where in Southern California all the were from.
Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy said an unknown number of students from Manual Arts Senior High School and Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools were on the trip. He did not know whether they were on the bus involved in the crash.
A high school senior from Alliance Renee & Meyer Luskin Academy High School in Los Angeles said she and a few of her classmates who were accepted to the university were invited to go on the tour.
Sabrina Garcia said the tour began Thursday, with buses taking students in Southern California on the ride to the campus for a three-day stay there. She said she decided to postpone the tour because she had a school project to complete.
"I was devastated when I heard about the crash, and relieved that I didn't attend," Garcia said. "I can't imagine how those kids feel. You think you're going somewhere safe with your school — and you end up in an accident."
A CHP dispatcher says the bus and truck were on opposite sides of the freeway when the truck crossed the median and slammed into the bus, causing an explosion and fire.
Investigators say the truck driver might have been trying to avoid a passenger car that was also involved in the crash, which shut down north- and south-bound traffic on the freeway.
"There was a small white sedan in front of the truck," Heitman said. "The FedEx vehicle did sideswipe the sedan before it crossed the median."
No one in the car was injured.
A first responder who helped set up a triage at the scene said 36 or 37 people received injuries ranging from minor to severe burns, broken legs and noses, and head lacerations.
"The victims were teenage kids. A lot of them were freaked out. They were shocked. They still couldn't grasp what happened," said Jason Wyman of the Orland Volunteer Fire Department.
Eleven people were taken to Enloe Medical Center in Chico, hospital officials said. Two of those patients were listed in critical condition Friday morning.
Five people were taken to Mercy Medical Center in Redding in fair condition. One patient was admitted to the burn unit of University of California, Davis, Medical Center in critical condition.
A nursing supervisor said three people were taken to Oroville Hospital in Oroville. She declined to describe their conditions, citing patient privacy laws.
Bonnie Kourvelas, a FedEx spokeswoman, said in a statement Thursday night: "Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone involved in the tragic accident on I-5 in California. We are cooperating fully with authorities as they investigate."
The American Red Cross set up a relief station at a Veterans Memorial Hall community center in Orland, about five miles from the crash site. Officer Joel Lynch said seven victims who were not hospitalized with injuries were staying the night with about 25 volunteers. A community member ordered pizza for the students.
Joseph reported from San Francisco. Associated Press Photographer Rick Pedroncelli in Orland, Associated Press Writers Lisa Leff in San Francisco and Daisy Nguyen and Tami Abdollah in Los Angeles contributed to this story.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Student members of Angelus (Augustana's women's choir) and the Collegiate Chorale will participate in a performance of Robert Harris' "Gloria" as part of the DCINY Concert Series in Lincoln Center's Alice Kelly Hall on Saturday, May 10, in New York City.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Last week, Augustana students turned a crosstown rivalry into a benefit for those in need. The "Sioux Falls Showdown," a collaborative effort between Augustana and the University of Sioux Falls, featured clothing and food drives and gave students a chance to serve meals at the Banquet.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Seniors Katelynn Kenney (Box Elder, S.D.) and Matt Stoffel (Sherburn, Minn.) and Augustana's student Stage Crew have advanced in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's Irene Ryan Acting Competition, held this week at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Teacher Nathan Strenge, class of 2009, and two colleagues at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists strive to be innovators in the math classroom. Recently, their innovation paid off – winning them $10,000 for their school.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Read the Sioux Falls Business Journal report on job opportunities for young professionals in South Dakota and learn about Augustana senior Alex Sproul, a nursing major who will finish his clinicals and an internship in May and will start work as an RN at Sanford Health this summer after passing his boards.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Members of The Augustana Choir and The Augustana Band are preparing for performance tours of the Midwest ahead of the spring semester.
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High school student artists from around the region were recognized earlier this month at a reception in honor of the High School Invitational, an exhibit currently on display at Augustana's Eide/Dalrymple Gallery.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Four Augustana juniors are hoping to turn a crosstown rivalry into a benefit for those in need. The "Sioux Falls Showdown" will place "Augustana" and "USF" food collection barrels inside Hy-Vee stores throughout Sioux Falls from January 17-24. Food donations will benefit Feeding South Dakota.
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Augustana has released its 2012-2013 Impact Report, an annual report of the state of the College and an honor roll of those who made gifts during the last fiscal year (August 1, 2012, through July 31, 2013).
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The Holiday Inn Wall Street, which bills itself as "the most technologically sophisticated hotel in New York," took a step in February that is likely to secure that moniker. The hotel has become a test site for Bluetooth, a wireless standard that allows communication among cellphones, PDAs, and notebook computers over short distances.
Here's the idea: Let's say you're one of the very few (at this point) people with a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone. When you book a room at the Holiday Inn Wall Street, the reservation agent takes down your mobile phone number and you create a four-digit PIN. On the day of check-in, Bluetooth radio transmitters in the hotel lobby send out signals "looking for" your phone. When you arrive, your phone picks up the signals, displaying a welcoming message that tells you your room number and the room rate. If all is well, you click on "yes," type in your PIN, and head to the elevator.
Don't worry; you didn't forget your room key. That's the next Bluetooth moment. The lock on your guest room door is also sending out Bluetooth signals looking for your phone. When you get within about 10 feet of your room, your phone prompts you to enter your PIN. After you do, the door unlocks.
The service debuted on one floor of the 138-room property for the Internet World Wireless trade show in February. The hotel supplied Bluetooth-enabled Ericsson cellphones to willing customers. While that was just a nine-room test case, the service is still in place and will be ready when "a year or so from now, Bluetooth begins to take off," says Frank Nicholas, area director for the Silicon Alley property.


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Daisy wrote:az2004 wrote:it only takes a brief moment to do something stupid
A good reason not to have loaded guns all over the house.
Not trying to provoke the gun debate again, which I agree is the third rail, but Daisy's comment and this case reminds me of what I read in yesterday's NYTimes.
- "The literature suggests that having a gun in your home to protect your family is like bringing a time bomb into your house," said Dr. Mark Rosenberg, an epidemiologist who helped establish the C.D.C.'s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. "Instead of protecting you, it's more likely to blow up."
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
S. C. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches.
Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. So effective were the Comanches that they forced the creation of the Texas Rangers and account for the advent of the new weapon specifically designed to fight them: the six-gun.
The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynne's exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being.
Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a lovely nine-year-old girl with cornflower-blue eyes who was kidnapped by Comanches from the far Texas frontier in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the "White Squaw" who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend.
S. C. Gwynne's account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history.
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Empire of the Summer Moon is a stunning historical account of the forty-year battle for control of the American West and of one of its most remarkable narratives: the century-spanning saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her half-white son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanche.
- In chapter four, Gwynne compares the Comanche warriors to the Celts, and later, in chapter five, to the Spartans. Both were war-driven cultures that prided themselves on being more fearless than their opponents. Can you think of any other historical cultures that remind you of the Comanche? Do you think it is fair to identify this tribe solely based on their ability to wage and win wars?
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (British, 1775-1851)
Oyster beds at Whitstable, Kent
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Sale, Christie's, London, 21st June 1861; The collection of Mrs. Haldimand deceased of Belgrave Square. The choice cabinet of water-colour drawings, pictures, engravings, books, enamels, including the celebrated album of drawings by all the most celebrated painters living in the year 1826. Lot 80, which comprised thirty watercolours including the present work in the third volume of the album, described as 'The celebrated album formed in 1826 under the superintendence of the late Mr Robson the landscape painter including the following drawings in watercolours to be sold in one lot.'
with Agnew's, London, purchased from the above for £1500.00
with Vokins Gallery, London, by 1883
Stephenson Clarke (1824-1891), purchased from the above
Colonel Stephenson Robert Clarke (1862-1948), Borde Hill, Sussex, son of the above
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By descent to his son until 1980
Sale, Christie's London, 18th March 1980, lot 280
with Leger Galleries, London, included in their Exhibition of English Watercolours, 10th November-24th December 1980, no. 22
Private collection UK, acquired from the above
London, Vokins Gallery, April 1883
Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery,
The Haldimand Collection of English Watercolours lent by Colonel Sir Ralph and Lady Clarke
, June-July 1963, no. 82
The Times, 24th April, 1883, p. 3, with a review of this work when shown at Vokins Gallery
Walter Thornbury,
The Life of J. M. W. Turner, RA
1977 p. 556
Sir Walter Armstrong,
, 1902, p. 285
W. G. Rawlinson,
The Engraved Work of J. M. W. Turner, RA
, 1908, vol. I, p. 68, no. 127
A. J. Finberg,
Turner's Southern Coast, with a Catalogue of the Engravings
, 1929, p. 69, listing and describing the engraving
Andrew Wilton,
J. M. W. Turner, R.A. His Art and Life
, 1979, p. 355, no. 484
Eric Shanes,
Turner's Rivers, Harbours and Coasts
, 1981, p. 29 and colour plate 47
John Horsburgh (1791-1869) for W. B. Cooke's,
Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England
, published by John and Arthur Arch, 1826, vol. I, pl. 1.
The engraving was accompanied by the following description of Whitstable, which read: "This town has little picturesque beauty in itself, being situated in a low marshy soil; but has an agreeable appearance when approached from the sea. It consists principally of one long street thickly inhabited, and another near the church, which is a mile distant from the town. Some attempts have been made to render it a bathing-place; but as the miasma from the marshes counteract the effects of the sea-breeze, it appears unlikely that invalids should be induced to reside there. The town of Whitstable was formerly notorious for smuggling; and it was said of the more wealthy inhabitants, that their riches were gained on the water 'between the lights.' This nefarious trade has been of late nearly annihilated; and the oyster fishery in the neighbourhood, together with extensive copper works, will, it is hoped, provide this populous little town more permanent as well as more respectable support. The people employed in the oyster business are called dredgers, and there are between seventy and eighty vessels in their service. As Whitstable is the port for coals and merchandize sent from London to Canterbury, and corn, hops, &c. are exported hence, it is a lively, busy little place. In addition to the occupations already mentioned, there are salt works, and the remarkable one of fishing for stones used as cement: for this purpose the common dredging-net is used; and the stone thus procured is burnt, pulverized, and then made into a proper consistency for the purpose of cement; above thirty sail of fishing-smacks are employed for this purpose. At Pudding-pan rock, not far from Whitstable, near the mouth of the Thames, great quantities of earthenware have from time to time been cast up, which are believed by antiquaries to be of Roman manufacture, notwithstanding a tradition in the neighbourhood, that a vessel freighted with such ware was cast away at this place. The church at Whitstable is very ancient, and several charitable institutions in the town are supported from sources which bespeak its antiquity; but no circumstance belonging to its annals denotes any great change from its former condition. Whitstable is situated 6 miles N. of Canterbury, and 61 from London: it contains 275 houses, and 1611 inhabitants, including the hamlet of Harwich."
Oyster Beds at Whitstable, Kent not only demonstrates Turner's mastery of his medium, colour and composition but also his unique ability in capturing the moisture of the sea air under dramatic lighting. The scene shows dredgers harvesting oysters in Whitstable Bay beneath the town and windmill bathed in the light of the afternoon sun. In central position two men pull and push a heavily laden horse-drawn cart, whose heavy progress is suggested by the motion of the clouds as a storm passes over Long Rock and Swalecliffe beyond. The eye is taken from the cart into the distance by a weaving line of figures, each depicted with perfect dexterity by a few simple brush strokes; sails caught in the sunlight then continue the line which is mirrored and reinforced by the vertical wooden stakes in the left hand corner. In the other Turner has inscribed the title as if it was a notice to visitors and as a visual pun places it between a pair of baskets and a piece of cloth that seemingly echo the form and lustre of oyster shells.
This exquisite watercolour was commissioned by the engraver, printseller and publisher William Bernard Cooke (1778-1855) for his
Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England
, originally published as a series of engravings between 1814 and 1826. Turner was initially asked to supply twenty four drawings at £7.10 each, which was increased to ten guineas after four issues while the engravers' fee rose from twenty five guineas to £40 a piece. Peter de Wint and other prominent artists were contracted to supply views though it was soon apparent that Turner's were considered superior so he was contracted to supply sixteen more watercolours to total forty, thus contributing the larger proportion of the forty eight plates and thirty eight vignettes.
William Bernard and his brother George Cooke (1781-1834) had originally intended to engrave all the works but time dictated that they had to involve other engravers including William Miller, Edward Goodall as well as John Horsburgh who engraved the present watercolour, the only one in the series by him after Turner. The completed series was eventually bound into two volumes and published in 1826. The illustrations were arranged geographically from east to west, beginning with his view of Whitstable and ending with Watchet in Somerset. The publication of the book received critical acclaim, with some views considered worthy of particular merit. Turner's view of Whitstable was one, causing one critic to note "In the view of Whitstable, engraved by Horsborough [sic], the skilful selection of foreground, the correct perspective, particularly of the figures in size and colour, and the transparency of the water, are what we principally admire" (Gentleman's Magazine, 1827, Volume 141, 1827, p. 343). Much later on, when in 1883 this watercolour was shown to the public for the first time at the Vokins Gallery, it again received significant praise.
The reason why Oyster Beds at Whitstable, Kent had been hidden from public view for nearly sixty years was due to the fact that soon after completion it had been included in an album of watercolours by the landscape watercolourist George Fennel Robson for Mrs. George Haldimand; she had requested 'a representative album of drawings by the best watercolour painters of the day', which he duly assembled between about 1826-28. Robson either commissioned new watercolours, especially from fellow members of the Old Watercolour Society or, as in this instance, acquired finished works direct from the artist. Other notable artists represented in the album included John Constable, John Varley, Copley Fielding, Richard Parkes Bonnington, John Linnell, David Cox, Peter de Wint and Sir Edwin Landseer. The album contained one hundred small sized watercolours (to include the frontispiece) with subjects ranging from landscapes and genre scenes to historical and literary views as well as two still lifes; it was divided into three volumes with the present work housed in the third which comprised a total of thirty watercolours.
Sophia Charlotte Haldimand née Prinsep was the eldest child of John Prinsep, a distinguished Anglo-Indian civil servant. A number of her siblings shared her passion for art, counting among them James, an antiquarian and amateur painter who provided an allegorical frontispiece for the album, Augustus and Amelia Rebecca, both keen watercolourists as well as Henry Thoby who with his wife Sara frequently entertained such figures as Thackeray, Tennyson, Burne-Jones and G.F. Watts at Little Holland House. In 1807 Sophia Prinsep married George Haldimand (1781-1851), a patron and collector of art and as a property developer and financier was part of the syndicate that built Belgrave Square, where the Haldimands had a house at number 31. There Sophia had a rosewood table with an integral drawer for her albums and a rising top for examination. Following her death her three volume album was sold at Christie's. The collection was purchased by Agnew's and subsequently by Vokins of Great Portland Street, who remounted the individual works on the instruction of the new owner Stephenson Clarke of Stephenson Clarke Shipping, Britain's oldest shipping company. Before he took full possession, the collection was shown to the public free of charge at the Vokins Gallery in April 1883, where this watercolour was singled out by one critic who noted "Every one knows what Turner can do, and Copley Fielding, and Peter de Wint; and here are three charming little examples ('Whitstable', 'A Brisk Gale,' 'View near Lincoln') which show these painters almost at their best." (The Times, 24th April, 1883, p. 3). Following Stephenson Clarke's death in 1891 the collection passed down to his son Colonel Stephenson Robert Clarke, who created the gardens at Borde Hill and whose other interests included ornithology, travelling and the arts. It was then owned by his son Colonel Sir Ralph Stephenson Clarke, M.P. for East Grinstead and finally the latter's son until the Haldimand Collection was reoffered at Christie's in 1980. At that stage it was dispersed; the Turner along with watercolours by Constable, de Wint, George Petrie and George Barrett were acquired by the Leger Galleries who then sold Turner's masterpiece to a private connoisseur, the present owner.
We are grateful to Alice Munro-Faure for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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BBC Sport confirms: "2145: Mixed news from the girls' semi-finals as Heather Watson thrashes Daria Gavrilova 6-3 6-0, but Laura Robson goes down 1-6 6-3 7-5 to Buchina of Russia. It's still raining by the way."
(The Juniors are being played now in an indoor facility outside of soggy New York, BTW)
Yana Buchina will meet Watson in the final on Sunday, Court 7 at noon Eastern. The doubles final will follow:
Court 7 12:00 Start Time (16:00 GMT)1. Junior Girls' Singles - FinalsYana Buchina (RUS) v. Heather Watson (GBR)[11]
2. Junior Girls' Doubles - FinalsElena Bogdan (ROU)[3] v. Valeria Solovieva (RUS)Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA)[3] Maryna Zanevska (UKR)
Yana Buchina
Well, Yana lost to Heather
Junior Girls' Singles - Finals Heather Watson(GBR)[11] def. Yana Buchina(RUS) 6-4 6-1
but the Russian-Ukranian duo won the doubles: [H]
Junior Girls' Doubles - Finals Valeria Solovieva(RUS) / Elena Bogdan(ROU)[3] / Maryna Zanevska(UKR) def. Noppawan Lertcheewakarn(THA)[3] 1-6 6-3 [10-7]
Valeria Solovieva Maryna Zanevska
We have to recognize that Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is a new Talent defeating the strongest tennis players.
Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova acknowledges the audience after she beat Venus Williams of U.S.. at the China Open Tennis Tournament in Beijing, Chin - Monday October 5, 11:39 AM
The 18-year-old world number 39 refused to be awed by Williams and dominated the last two sets of the 132-minute contest.
She also beat the seven-times Grand Slam winner in Tokyo last Monday.
"She played really well, unfortunately sometimes I made errors too soon in the play," Williams, 29, said.
"She started way aggressive today," Pavlyuchenkova said. "She wanted to kill me, I guess."
The Russian raced through the second set, wobbled a bit losing her serve to love at 5-2 in the third, but held her nerve to serve out for the match two games later.
"I had nothing to lose," Pavlyuchenkova added. "I just tried to move her around as much as I could, just hit as hard as I could in the court and just enjoy the match."
Congratulations Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Wednesday is indeed All-Russian day at the Round of 16 in Beijing. In addition to the big names in the Lotus, Nastya will play the Canadian on Court 1. Probably little chance of stream on that match, but spare her a thought
Court 1 (from 11.00hrs) (03:00 GMT) [23:00 TUE Eastern US]1. ATP: Blake/Ram vs. Fyrstenberg/Matkowski2. Aleksandra Wozniak vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Davaiii!!! [H] All Russians to the quarterfinals!!!
Nastya wins 64 64 to set up an all-Slav'sya Quarterfinal where she awaits either Kuzi or Alona B. That could have been 64 61 except for--you guessed it--failure to close...
But what the hell. She won.
For whatever reason, the sovsport.ru website is more difficult than most for online translators. But, since the Western press is so obviously committed to ignore young Russian players, and because she mentions Masha, I took some time on this one. Some lines are still kinda hincky. If I wasn't sure I could polish a line properly, I left it alone. You can get the sense of most of them:
Валерия Соловьева Valeria Solovieva (RUS) (right) & partner Marina Zanevskaya (UKR).
Источник: Советский Спорт Source: Soviet Sport ТЕННИС TENNIS
And yet we have a champion in New York. The victory won "on the check box", where not expected. Meet the winner of the U.S. Open in junior doubles Valeria Solovieva from Saratov.
They lost the first set of the final to an international pair of Bogdan / Lertcheevakarn (Romania / Thailand) It looked hopeless. Who would have thought that after the murderous 1:6 you could so quickly get over that but in the next set, there were only three unforced errors between the two. As a result - 6:3 and the third a shorter set, a junior who played in the manner of an adult tiebreak only to ten points. Creating a reserve of four match points, inexperienced Rossiyanka Valeria Solovieva and Ukrainian Marina Zanevskaya put the point in the game, only the third time.
They received the precious trophy and confounded all to thank the organizers and the audience in English. Only an hour after the battle on the court at the official press conference, it appears that the winner, breaking waves, perfectly expresses itself in foreign and native language.
"Oh, and I have been here once!" - Admires Lera, the lowest-ranked in the tournament room for an interview. "Wow, must necessarily take pictures here!" Funny that in 16 years of tennis are to communicate with the press, as the holiday. It is unlikely that they represent, that soon, with the first successes in the adult tour, contact with the media will turn into heavy labor.
What came over you in the second set?
"I take the moment in the life of Russia's main heroine of The USO." (You know who she means. [:)])
"So this is our Marina tradition such" laughs Lera. "We are in the quarterfinals and semifinals and lost in the first set. During this time we are able to get the measure of our rivals, and then it becomes a matter of technique."
What about teamwork with a partner? You have to like with a different one this year played.
"Sometimes. But only if Marina has not participated in a singles tournament, in which I played. However, when it was possible, we performed together. And now something after such a victory, and even more so continue! We have a tremendous understanding and on the court, and beyond."
A pair for you - it ...
"Not a less important event than the singles. Every time fully to spread everywhere."
Who is your idol in the women's tennis?
"I most like... In Milan I and Marina were compared with Sharapova and Zvonareva. One Italian woman even came to the match with a poster, where it was written in Russian Вера+Мария : Vera + Maria. We are not offended, because we love and the one and another."
Have you met? (with Maria)
"Да. - Yes. When I was 12 years old, we practiced together in Miami. She always treated me with an open mind, gave much valuable advice. And I will be glad if I could be like her not only externally, but also on results."
In Miami then, but now (where do you train)?
"The same, at the Academy of Andrei Kozlov. This is a young professional, my countryman from Saratov."
Miami training, despite the compatriotic relationship, I think, is worth a pretty penny. Who helps you?
"Ask my father. He leads all of my affairs. I also asked: he said play well and not worry about anything. I try."
Alexander, why from a family of gymnasts and master of swimming sports, a tennis player appeared? - Following the advice of Lera, appeal to her father.
"We understand that financial returns to our sports with my wife against the backdrop of tennis compared."
So you decided on a family board ... (speaking again to Lera)
"There was no Council" - Alexander cuts in the style of another tennis dad - Yuri Sharapov. "I decided - the wife agreed." Lol! [H]
Funds for the career development of her daughter from?
"(My parents) sold a few of their stores in Saratov. But now and we have sponsors to help. I hope that the present victory only develops cooperation."
With junior tennis when the bye?
"Already this year I would like to start playing adult tournaments. We will ask for a wildcard at the Kremlin Cup."
Валерия СОЛОВЬЕВА Valeria Solovieva
Born Nov. 3, 1992 in Saratov.
Involved in tennis at age four. From the age of 11 trains at the Tennis Academy in Miami.
Orthodox. On the left is playing with two hands.
Favorite surface - hard.
Hobbies: music, chess, table tennis, swimming.
Champion Junior USO doubles paired with Marina Zanevsky (Ukraine).
Future Champions: The First Russian President Foundation awards--see Yana Buchina beside Naina Yeltsina:
Assuming we can still call her a "new talent": Can you believe this is Nastya? [:O] A wig, clearly, but still... Glamour shots by Eugene Voenskiy, special for the magazine PROSport. Anastasia & her brother/trainer Alexander Pavlyuchenkov are blogging for the Russian sports site http://www.sports.ru/tennis/ .
See if you can go direct to the translations:
Some stories, you don't quite know what to make of. This item went on to completely mis-report the outcome of the doubles final, but I did confirm Kulikova's win, so congrats to her for that. [:)] There is another issue, however...
Ahmed Rizvi
DUBAI // Regina Kulikova has set her sights on qualifying for her first grand slam tournament in Australia next month after winning the Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge last night.The Russian defeated Sandra Zahlavova of the Czech Republic 7-6 (6), 6-3 to claim a trophy already inscribed with some of the bigger names of the WTA Tour such as Jelena Jankovic, Katerina Bondarenko and Marion Bartoli.
The win, her eighth title on the ITF Tour, gives her 65 ranking points and leaves her US$11,500 (Dh42.216) better off.Kulikova, a beneficiary of a grant from the Boris Yeltsin Fund in 2004, has previously played in the qualifiers of three grand slam tournaments: the French Open earlier this year and Wimbledon and the US Open in 2008, but has so far failed to make it to a main event. The 20-year-old hopes she will be lucky this time.
"Winning this tournament is really important for me," she said. "If you look at the names who have won the title earlier, it is a prestigious tournament. Now I hope I can follow in the footsteps of the past winners."It is good to get these points. This is the end of the year and I am getting some important ranking points going into the new season. Now I will be going to Australia and trying my best to get through the qualifiers and make my first appearance at a grand slam. [:^)]
"The Habtoor winners have gone on to do well and I hope that charm will work for me as well. Hopefully I will be able to keep the legacy going."
I don't know why she would say that. [*-)] I remember and WTA & Wikipedia confirm:
"She (Kulikova) qualified for the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. She beat Karolina Sprem in the first round and then upset world number 27 Alisa Kleybanova in three sets. Kulikova was overwhelmed by world number 4 Elena Dementieva in the third round, winning only three games"
Triumphant Kulikova is hoping to follow in some famous footsteps
Regina Kulikova (RUS) d. Sandra Zahlavova (CZE/7) 76 63
Let's go Kulikova!!!!!
official web site http://kulikova.com/
Daria Gavrilova, Yana Buchina, and newcomer Anna Arina Marenko are thru to second round of AO Juniors. [H]
Daria Gavrilova
official web site http://kulikova.com/
Is it just me or someone else thinks this kova looks like the young Anna Kournikova?
BTW why the hell there are so many young tennis beauties in Russia?[8-)]
Thank Boris Yeltsin. [H] A couple of old stories with good info:
Add Ksenia Kirillova and Yulia Putintseva thru to the second round singles.
Plus: Kirillova & Buchina to second round in doubles--also Gavrilova & partner Perkhova, a Belarusian. [H]
[quote user="paul_pipkin"]
Daria Gavrilova, Yana Buchina, Anna Arina Marenko, and Ksenia Kirillova are thru to 3rd Round Singles--Buchina beating hot young American Madison Keys 36 75 62.
Also Buchina & partner Kirillova thru to the Doubles Quarterfinals. [H]
Ksenia Kirillova
Ksenia Pervak--I don't think she played Melbourne this year. Most of the others went out in the third round. [:(] Yana Buchina retired with an injury from singles. That knocked her and Kirillova outta doubles as well.
(Oh, Katya Makarova & Czech partner Jaroslav Levinsky made the Mixed Doubles semis. [:)]
Only Daria Gavrilova has moved on to the Girls' quarterfinals.
WTA Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is a Player to WatchLive Tennis Staff 3 Feb 2010
Russian teen appears to be a bright spot in the future of that country's tennis.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is hardly a stranger to tennis fans however she has yet to break through on the WTA tour big time, as of yet. She's already experienced a degree of success as she is a top 40 player, however great things should be expected from this player in the future as she is still only 18 years old.
Pavlyuchenkova really started to grab a lot of attention during the latter parts of 2009 as she knocked Venus Williams out of back to back tournaments in Tokyo and Beijing. Additionally, Pavlyuchenkova had wins in 2009 over Jelena Jankovic and top 10 player Agnieszka Radwanska.
Pavlyuchenkova has to be considered to be a player to watch on the women's tour but she is currently below the radar in a lot of ways.
Not all sportsbooks carry odds for Pavyluchenkova on the Slams but the conditions are right for a possible new star to emerge in the upcoming year and Pavlyuchenkova should be considered a promising prospect. She's the youngest player in the top 40, the second youngest player in the top 100, and has probably been overlooked in a lot of ways because of both Caroline Wozniacki's and Melanie Oudin's successes at the 2009 US Open, the two recognized teen sensations.
However, Pavlyuchenkova, 5'10", is certainly a talent and may be arriving in a Grand Slam quarterfinal match sometime during the 2010 calendar year.
If you want to take a shot in the dark on a longshot that has potential go to Blue Square and pick Pavlyuchenkova to win Wimbledon at +10000 (100/1). However the smartest thing to do is to keep this young star in the back of your mind, follow her results in the tournaments leading up to the summer, and pounce on her long odds in individual matches because she will be threatening the top stars on tour in heads up play soon.
18 year olds in the top 40 are rare.
Vera Z had to dismiss young Ksenia Pervak (09 AO Junior Champion) from the first round at Pattaya City. Ksenia is still in the tournament, though, playing doubles with Chaki.


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The Orange began with a starting lineup of Carter-Williams, a sophomore, and senior Brandon Triche at guard, sophomore Rakeem Christmas and junior C.J. Fair at forward, and freshman DaJuan Coleman at center. Guard Trevor Cooney, who redshirted as a freshman last season, did not play. He's recovering from a tonsillectomy.
Fair finished with 16 points, backup center Baye Moussa Keita had 14, Triche and Coleman both had 11. Christmas had seven points and five blocks, and freshman Jerami Grant had six points.
Jonathan Merceus had 15 points and nine rebounds to lead Pace and David Eismeier had 14, all in the second half.
Coach Jim Boeheim, soon to be 68 and just 10 wins shy of 900, begins his 37th year when the Orange open the season at San Diego State on Nov. 9 before returning home to face Wagner nine days later.
The tallest players in Pace's three-guard starting lineup were 6-foot-6 forwards Keon Williams and Merceus. No surprise that every time the Setters tried to drive the baseline they were met by the long arms of the Orange. Syracuse registered six blocks in the first 10 minutes of play, three by Coleman, and finished with 14.
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OPELOUSAS Investigators continue to probe a bizarre Thursday morning attack during which the alleged assailant inexplicably died.
The incoming interim president at Louisiana College said he hopes to 'nourish a healthy environment' at the private Baptist school in Pineville.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's plan to use $210 million in surplus and one-time money to help balance next year's budget received the backing Thursday of the State Bond Commission, support that was needed for the maneuver to work.
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Early voting begins across the state Saturday for the May 3 general election.
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About 100 kids visited with the Easter Bunny and hunted plastic eggs at the Rapides Parish Library's annual Eggstravaganza on Wednesday.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Los Angeles and New York have been making their cases. Now, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is pitching his city as the new home for the Late Show when Stephen Colbert takes over that CBS program from David Letterman next year.
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A school resource officer at an Alexandria school kept an eye on three burglary suspects until his fellow Rapides Parish Sheriff's deputies arrived and captured them Thursday, according to a release.
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A Grant Parish Sheriff's deputy who spotted a woman putting something into a tree before fleeing found marijuana there, which led to the arrest of a Colfax woman after a chase and altercation, according to a release.
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ROME Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 disabled and elderly people Thursday women and non-Catholics among them in a pre-Easter ritual designed to show his willingness to serve others like a "slave."
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A Baptist seminary in New Orleans announced Wednesday the start of a center with a mission and name bearing a striking resemblance to the Caskey School of Divinity at Louisiana College in Pineville.
Public schools will be able to display Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and secular decorations, and students and faculty can freely exchange such greetings if House Bill 876 becomes law.
A Chalmette lawmaker on Wednesday shelved a proposal that would have let Louisiana school employees who possess concealed- handgun permits bring their weapons to work.
Recent reform of the federal flood insurance program was essential, but more changes are needed, U.S. Senate candidate Bill Cassidy said Wednesday in Alexandria.
MONROE A poll conducted this week shows 5th District U.S. Rep. Vance McAllister, R-La., is vulnerable in the fall election, but only a slight majority said his tryst with a married former staffer would keep them from voting to re-elect the freshman congressman.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that 1 in 68 children aged 8 had a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. The increase comes partially from increased awareness and screening, but clinical psychologist Michelle Yetman believes the condition is becoming more common.
NEW YORK Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to spend $50 million this year on a new group that will mix campaign contributions with field operations aimed at pulling 1 million gun-control supporters to the polls, he announced Wednesday, adding a new dimension to his long-running fight for tighter firearms regulation.
Central Louisiana will be sunny and warmer Wednesday with high temperatures in the upper 60s. Thursday will be partly sunny and warmer.
Schoolchildren in the rural Natchitoches Parish community of Cloutierville will now have access to dental care, thanks to a partnership between Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital and the Oral Health America Smiles Across America program.
NEW ORLEANS Investigators say five very sick children at a New Orleans hospital died after exposure to a fungus made them even sicker.
MONROE -- Leah Gordon, the staff member of U.S. Rep. Vance McAllister who is accused of leaking the video of the congressmans scandalous kiss, has resigned as his Monroe District Office manager.
A Pineville man is facing 16 counts of simple burglary and other charges after an investigation into one Stilly Road break-in led to his door, and detectives say more arrests are expected, according to a release.
Alexandria Police are seeking a missing 16-year-old boy who reportedly left his house with a woman on Wednesday.
It didnt get down to freezing, but this mornings low temperature in Alexandria did set a record for April 16.
After a complaint that he had sexual contact with a minor, a New Llano man admitted the act to Vernon Parish Sheriff's detectives and was arrested Wednesday, according to a release.
ST. LOUIS After he was convicted of armed robbery in 2000, Cornealious Anderson was sentenced to 13 years behind bars and told to await instructions on when and where to report to prison. But those instructions never came.
BATON ROUGE Louisiana wont have any officially labeled speed traps.
WASHINGTON Democratic worries about this November's elections, a lack of Senate votes and House opposition are forcing congressional gun-control supporters to significantly winnow their 2014 agenda, a year after lawmakers scuttled President Barack Obama's effort to pass new curbs on firearms.
Natchitoches Parish Sheriff's deputies who stopped a man who was carrying two bags ended up arresting the man, who was wanted in Winn Parish and in Texas, according to a release.
A Rosepine woman is being accused of various offenses, including taking her 16-year-old daughter away from the girl's legal guardian, according to the Vernon Parish Sheriff's Office.
BOSTON The man arrested near the Boston Marathon finish line carrying a backpack containing a rice cooker was sent to a state psychiatric facility for an evaluation Wednesday after an initial court appearance.
MOKPO, South Korea A ferry carrying 462 people, mostly high school students on an overnight trip to a tourist island, sank off South Korea's southern coast on Wednesday, leaving more than 280 people missing despite a frantic, hours-long rescue by dozens of ships and helicopters. At least four people were confirmed dead and 55 injured.
A school turnaround plan for Alexandria Middle Magnet School could lead to mass turnover at the school, and teachers let it be known Tuesday they are upset about it.
U.S. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana declined to join other state Republican leaders in calling for 5th District U.S. Rep. Vance McAllister's resignation, instead saying his thoughts were with the families involved in the congressman's kissing scandal.
PINEVILLE Joe Aguillards controversial tenure as president of Louisiana College is coming to an end.
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says ... on Tuesday, Jul 15 at 12:05 PM
WOW, all i can say, i love that song and you did a wonderful job
says ... on Sunday, Jun 29 at 2:03 PM
How very touching. Crying yet writing this. Comin back end of July to volunteer in the old home town to do whatever I can. I will always be proud to have been raised in Iowa and have countless good memories of Cedar Rapids and her people.
says ... on Sunday, Jun 29 at 3:22 AM
Thank you for putting this video together. It helps.
says ... on Wednesday, Jun 25 at 11:01 PM
thank you
says ... on Tuesday, Jun 24 at 9:28 PM
my sister and her family lost almost everything but they still have thier lives and i am so thankful for that. the song reminds me that even though personal possessions may be lost, personal lives, faith and love will never leave.
says ... on Tuesday, Jun 24 at 9:18 PM
that picture you took on corner of 4th st and Bave is right next door to my brother and sister in laws house... very sad!! great video. I was putting one together but mine was too When the levee breaks by Led Zeppelin :) nice job
says ... on Tuesday, Jun 24 at 1:02 PM
Thank you for the video. Thank you to all that have and are serving in this disaster. We are Iowans - We will survive! May God be with all of us today, tomorrow and forever!
says ... on Tuesday, Jun 24 at 10:10 AM
i don't live in cr but i have family there and feel very affected by all this. i check daily to see how you all are doing and my prayers go out to all who are involved whether by loss or as someone giving a helping hand. keep up the good work.
says ... on Tuesday, Jun 24 at 2:32 AM
It says it will not change me. o yes it will. but nicely done.
says ... on Tuesday, Jun 24 at 2:30 AM
Thank You. For letting me relize. I didnt have to lose my home. I have both my Brothers that did and I have felt guilty I dont have to fell guilty. I was born and rasied here and Cedar Rapids will always be my Home. I will make it beutiful again.
says ... on Tuesday, Jun 24 at 12:55 AM
I too was brough to tears. I feel guilty being high and dry in Cedar Rapids. I will donate time, money, clothes and energy to help CR recover.
says ... on Monday, Jun 23 at 8:56 PM
This video brought me to tears. It is a great video and shows loss as well as recovery and we will recover working together. GOD BLESS US AND OUR TOWN CEDAR RAPIDS.
says ... on Monday, Jun 23 at 5:48 PM
(continued) god bless all of us especially those that have lost there homes.
says ... on Monday, Jun 23 at 5:46 PM
i sometimes feel that i wasn't directly affected by the flood even though my inlaws lost most of everything but then as i watched this video i relize i may not have lost my personal belongings but cedar rapids has been my home my whole life god bless
says ... on Monday, Jun 23 at 5:40 PM
What a Great Job Putting this together You pick A Great Singer & Song Well Done Let Help put this City Back Together Better than before
says ... on Monday, Jun 23 at 4:01 PM
What a wonderful video! You did a wonderful job and it is a reminder how we all must pull together and finish the recovery process as a city. Thanks for the video!


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Daily Pulse: Zechariah 3:2 The LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you!"
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